Does everyone get cataracts? Well yes... if you live long enough. You see, cataracts are an ageing process of the crystalline lens of the eye that happens in everyone. And it begins from the moment you are born till the day you need a cataract operation. As the crystalline lens ages, it loses both elasticity and transparency. We are born with about 20 dioptres of power of what's called accommodation or focusing power in our lens and by the time we are 60, it's pretty much ze